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Website Sitemaps-
In general, there are two types of sitemaps. The first type of
sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site - often by
section - and is meant to help users find the information they need.
XML Sitemaps - usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S - are a way
for you to give Google information about your site. This is the type
of Sitemap we'll be discussing. In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is
a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a
Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on
your website, including URLs that may not be discovered by Google's
normal crawling process.
A Sitemap allows you to let search engines know all the pages
you have available on your website. It is a XML file that lists
all the URLs for a website. Sitemaps also allow you to give some
information about the URLs, how often they are updated and how
important they are compared to other URLS on your site. Having a
sitemap greatly improves the ability of robots and spiders to
crawl your website and share the information with search
engines, which in turn can help your
PageRank.
The more complex your site the more important it is to have a
sitemap. Since Google is the top search engine, I use a Google
sitemap on my website Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:
- Your website has dynamic content.
- Your website has pages that aren't easily discovered by
Googlebot during the crawl process - for example, pages
featuring rich AJAX or Flash.
- Your website is new and has few links to it.
(Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to
another, so if your site isn't well linked, it may be hard for
Google to discover it.)
- Your website has a large archive of content pages that are
not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.
Creating a Google Sitemap:
There are many sites on the web that can help you create your
Google Site map. Website Creations uses this
one
because it is both user friendly and reliable. In the middle, on
the left you will see a spot to add the URL of your website. Be
sure to add the main index page here. next set the frequency
button (this is how often the pages may change or be altered by
you),then click the "Start" Button. When it is finished you
will have the option to save the file in different ways. I
always save the compressed file.
Step Two- Create the XLM File
Lower on the left column you will see a sentence like this: XML
Sitemap content (249 pages) . Below that is your XML file.
Simply copy that entire file onto a text file. Use Microsoft
Notepad or another program that does not use coding. Name the
file sitemap.xml
Now place the xml file into the sitemap folder. Make sure the
folder has been uploaded to your site.
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